9 Best Articles in 2021
VICE
Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware
VICE
10 min read · 4151 saves · From 2017 · A dive into the thriving black market of John Deere tractor hacking.
Gizmodo
How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met
Gizmodo
9 min read · 698 saves · From 2017 · In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.
The Atlantic
China Is the First Surveillance Superpower
The Atlantic
20+ min read · 642 saves · 2020-07-29 · Ross Andersen · Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.
Fast Company
Exclusive: Tim Berners-Lee tells us his radical new plan to upend the World Wide Web
Fast Company
4 min read · 587 saves · From 2018 · With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
Guardian Tech
Internet privacy: the apps that protect you from your apps
Guardian Tech
7 min read · 581 saves · 2020-02-16 · Alex Hern · Worried about the data collected about you? A new generation of startups is making apps to put your privacy settings straight
medium.freecodecamp.com
How to encrypt your entire life in less than an hour
medium.freecodecamp.com
4 min read · 532 saves · From 2016 · “Only the paranoid survive.” — Andy Grove
The New York Times
Opinion | Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
The New York Times
~19 min read · 507 saves · 2019-12-19 · What we learned from the spy in your pocket.
Bloomberg
Palantir Knows Everything About You
Bloomberg
20+ min read · 504 saves · From 2018 · Facebook may currently be the black sheep when it comes to privacy and data violations, but it isn’t the only company capable of watching every step you take. Bloomberg Businessweek writers Lizette Chapman, Jordan Robertson and Peter Waldman profile the big-data firm Palantir Technologies, which has evolved from helping the US government catch terrorists to assisting companies monitor their employees and helping law enforcement detect possible offenders. A common thread that runs through both companies is their desperate need to make money and please investors – which, as it turns out, is at odds with protecting people’s privacy.
New Statesman
Slouching towards dystopia: the rise of surveillance capitalism and the death of privacy
New Statesman
~12 min read · 494 saves · 2020-02-28 · Suppose you walk into a shop and the guard at the entrance records your name. Cameras on the ceiling track your every step in the store, log which items you looked at and which ones you ignored. After…
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WIRED
WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years, Actually
WIRED
2 min read · 190 saves · Jan 8th · A pop-up notification has alerted the messaging app's users to a practice that's been in place since 2016.
9to5Mac.com
App privacy labels show stark contrasts among messaging apps
9to5Mac.com
2 min read · 133 saves · Jan 4th · Ben Lovejoy · Apple's new app privacy labels went live in the App Store last month, giving users the chance to see what data is collected by each ...
Vox
What is Signal, and why is everybody downloading it right now?
Vox
4 min read · 98 saves · Jan 12th · Rani Molla · The encrypted messaging app is currently the most downloaded app on both app stores.
WIRED
How Law Enforcement Gets Around Your Smartphone's Encryption
WIRED
7 min read · 94 saves · Jan 13th · New research has dug into the openings that iOS and Android security provide for anyone with the right tools.
Fast Company
Instagram’s redesign has a dark side
Fast Company
4 min read · 70 saves · Jan 4th · Nazanin Andalibi · Instagram says its new Shop tab is meant to support small businesses and help people connect to their favorite brands. But is it really just surveillance capitalism in disguise?
The Verge
Google’s Wing warns new drone laws ‘may have unintended consequences’ for privacy
The Verge
3 min read · 57 saves · Jan 1st · Sean Hollister · Alphabet’s drone delivery company still wants drones tracked — but differently
TechCrunch
These 6 browser extensions will improve your online privacy
TechCrunch
3 min read · 53 saves · Jan 10th · How to reduce tracking, block ads, and encrypt all the things.
The Hacker News
WhatsApp Will Delete Your Account If You Don't Agree Sharing Data With Facebook
The Hacker News
4 min read · 51 saves · Jan 6th · Ravie Lakshmanan · Facebook will delete your WhatsApp account if you don't agree to the new WhatsApp Privacy Policy and Terms of Services.
VICE
Leaked Location Data Shows Another Muslim Prayer App Tracking Users
VICE
8 min read · 49 saves · Jan 11th · Salaat First has more than ten million downloads and sold location data to Predicio, which is linked to a U.S. contractor which works with ICE.
ZDNet
I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users and my head is spinning
ZDNet
4 min read · 37 saves · Jan 17th · Microsoft Teams isn't just there to make employees' lives easier. It's also there to give bosses data about so many things.
